The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-23
WASHINGTON NEWS.
PosTMAsTERs APPOINTED.

POSTMASTERS APPOINTED.
WASHINGTON, June 20.-The Presi-
dent to-day appointed John A. Stem
beuranch postmaster at PeIla, Iowa,
vice a. II. Virson, removed: James M.
Nickall, Hannibal, Mo-, vice. w. L.
Chamberlain removed.
COMPLAINTS POURING IN.
WASHINGTON, June 20.-Vernor G.
Ward, of Columbus, Ohio, has filed for
the Interstate Commerce Commission
formal complaint charging the ticket
agent of the Chicago, st. Louis & Pitts
burg Railroad with a refusal to sell
him in accordance with published
Illinois, and the Chicago & Alton Road
from Chicago. He says the agent gave
as reason for his refusal that his
company was boycotting the Chicago &
Alton. VIM. H. Reed, of Walla
Walla, Washington Territory, COM
plains of the Oregon Railway & Navi-
CATION Company for charging $72 to
transport $4,000 pounds of grain
to Portland, Oregon. He thinks all
over So ton is unjust and unTeason-
able. He asks the interposition of the
Interstate Commission. The Commits
sioner also received to-day complaint
from Josiah Baker and D. Rankin, live
here to buckingham Palace. Crowds
stock dealers, of Tarkio, Missouri,
against the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad Company. The COM
plainants aver that the railroad
charges them so per carload for trans
porting live stock to Chicago, while it
charges from Kansas City to Chicago
only $50; that Kansas City is SAT miles
from Chicago, while Tarkio is only 4s3
miles. They want the Interstate
Commission to interpose.
MUST PRINT THE RULE
WASHINGTON, June 2l.-The Inter
State Commerce Commission promul-
gated the following to-day:
Whereas, Section 6 of the act to
regulate commerce, authorizes the COM
mission to direct when joint tariffs
shall be made public and prescribe the
measure of publicity to be given the
rates, fares or charges established by
two or more common carriers for trans
portatlon OF passengers OF freight pass
ing over continuous lines or rontes,
copies of which are required by the 9th
section of the act toregulate commerce,
to be filed with the commission shall be
made public as far as the same
relate TO the business between points
connected by the lines of any single
common carrier required by the first
paragraph of said section to make pub
lie the schedules of its rates, fares and
charges. Such joint tariffs shall be
so published by printing the same in
large type, of at least the size of Or
binary plea, copies of which shall be
kept for the use of the public in such
places and in such form that they can
be conveniently inspected at every
depot or station upon the line of the
carriers uniting in such joint tariff,
where any business is transacted in
competition with the business of the
carrier whose schedules are required
by law to be made public as aforesaid.
AMERICANS KILLED AT NANAIMO.
The United States Consul at Victo-
ria, B. c., furnishes the Department of
State with list of Americans killed
in the explosion at Nanaimo, May g..
The names and former residences are
as follows: John A. Stevens, Iowa;
Robert Burlington, Washington Terri
tory; John C. Fallon, Michigan; James
| Bellon, William Morris and w. H.
Stephenson, Missouri; William Lucky,
ST., w. S. Cochrane and Michael Ly-
| onS, Wisconsin.